History 2145A/B Lecture : 6 Lecture - Russian revolution.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2145A/B
• Professor: Robert Ventresca

Document Summary

Russian revolution sets in motion a whole chain of reactions. What the bolsheviks manage to accomplish in 1917 is control of the capital, petrograd. A few days later they did the same in moscow. They gain control of the few important cities in russia. Practical, strategic victory seizure of the cities; not the whole country. They then use that to extend their rule/control over their empire. Centre authority collapses more localized pressures, decentralized poles. Russia is divided between different ethnic groups separatism other problem is distrust of authority (including orthodox church) Famine, civil war, and authoritarian state, ruled by a single party. Provinces: local soviets controlled by srs and mensheviks. Bolsheviks believe they are the beginning of a world-wide revolution. When ussr crumbles it doesn"t start in moscow for example, starts in satellite republics, The legacy of 1917 civil war, famine, authoritarian rule. Abolish concept of private property give up to soviets who should then re-distribute land to peasants.